Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

In the aftermath of the Civil War, New Mexico Territory endured painful years of hardship and ongoing strife. During this turbulent period, a U.S. ...

The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 left the capital city, Tenochtitlan, in ruins. Conquistador Hernán Cortés, following the city's surrender in...

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes ...

Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, ...

Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at...

Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished. ...

Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for...

Although the ultimate prize of the Great Game played out between Great Britain and Imperial Russia in the 19th century was India, most of the intri...

This volume focuses on the famous philosophical correspondence between the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, writing in the final months o...

Jean-Paul Bertaud is the leading French authority on the army of the French Revolution, and La Revolution armee is the authortative treatment of th...

Explains the astonishing growth of Middlesbrough from a hamlet to a very substantial town in the space of a few decades in the middle of the ninete...

To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activ...

In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most...

This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up ...

A fundamental truth about British power in the nineteenth century and beyond was that Britain was a global power. Her international position rested...

This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

The notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In ...

Jonathan Garb's A History of Kabbalah: From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day is a lucid and sophisticated account of the multifaceted nat...

Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the ...

From 1815 to 1823 the Italian influence on English literature was at its zenith. While English tourists flocked to Italy, a pervasive Italianism co...

The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holde...